{"id":105940,"date":"2020-08-27T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105940"},"modified":"2020-08-27T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:14:46","slug":"porridge-instead-of-milk-for-school-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/27\/porridge-instead-of-milk-for-school-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Porridge instead of milk for school children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage held a special discussion with the Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association at the Govijana Mandiraya today (27) regarding the issue of giving a glass of traditional rice porridge instead of a glass of milk to school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202008\/1598529046_8854162_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Porridge+instead+of+milk+for+school+children\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This program was presented by the Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association as a solution to the inadequate milk production in the country and the malnutrition of school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is malnutrition as well as excessive weight gain among school children today and the prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes is on the rise among school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association (GMOA) has pointed out that it is more important to provide a glass of porridge made from non-toxic traditional local rice as a solution to these problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture agreed to the proposal and appointed a committee to conduct a feasibility study of the program.&lt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retired Major General Sumedha Perera, Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and officials from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Agrarian Development were also present on the occasion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage held a special discussion with the Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association at the Govijana Mandiraya today (27) regarding the issue of giving a glass of traditional rice porridge instead of a glass of milk to school children. This program was presented by the Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}